FOR MY PAIN guitarist Lauri Tuohimaa will join fellow Finns CHARON on their upcoming Russian tour, which is set to take place between December 4 and 12. Tuohimaa will be filling the slot left vacant by the departure of Jasse Von Hast, who left the latter group in order to focus on his family life. ...

Former SAIGON KICK vocalist Matt Kramer has posted the following message on his official web site: "If you've been really, really, naughty this year, what I'm going to do on Christmas day, from Dec. 24 to Dec. 26, I'm changing my ways, and turning from the Grinch into Santa, and I'm giving away ...

Swedish thrashers CARNAL FORGE will record their first live DVD at the end of January. In addition to live performance footage, the DVD will contain lots of bonus material. CARNAL FORGE will enter Studio Underground on February 5 to begin recording their fifth full-length release, tentatively due next summer through Century Media Records. 12-13 songs ...

GODHEAD have been rejoined by original drummer James O'Connor following the departure of ex-STATIC-X skinsman Ken Jay. The band were forced to cancel a European tour due to Ken's illness. Now Ken has made the departure definite and permanent, so the band have been looking for a replacement. According to frontman Jason Miller, "We all ...

An audio recording of DREAM THEATER vocalist James LaBrie singing the U.S. National Anthem prior to the Memphis RiverKings-Fort Worth Brahmas hockey game on Oct. 18 at the DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven, Mississippi is available for download in MP3 format at this location. As previously reported, LaBrie recently traveled to Electric ...

ALICE COOPER was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame earlier today (Dec. 2). Check out pictures from Wire Image, Celebrity Photo. About 300 fans greeted Cooper at the ceremony in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Cooper, 55, signed autographs and posed for pictures ...

World Entertainment News Network is reporting that lyrics by legendary rockers LED ZEPPELIN are being used to persuade tourists to visit Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales. ZEPPELIN once stayed at a cottage on the peak in North Wales, where they wrote the classic "Bron Y Aur Stomp" from their "Led Zeppelin III" album. Now ...

Germany's FLESHCRAWL have completed work on their seventh album, "Made of Flesh", at Studio Underground in Sweden. The follow-up to 2001's "Soulskinner" "kicks off where [the last album] ended, but with a lot more intensity, variety and deadliness," according to an official press release. The complete track listing for "Made of Flesh" is as follows: ...

Finnish rockers HANOI ROCKS have slammed former pals MÖTLEY CRÜE over the title of their recently released box set, "Music To Crash Your Car To, Volume 1". In 1984, CRÜE frontman Vince Neil was arrested on drunk-driving and vehicular-manslaughter charges after a late-night liquor run turned into a tragic accident that killed his passenger, HANOI ...